Shocking video shows Toronto driver ramming into, driving over cyclist
Thit happened today July 19 on north Yonge St. @TPSOperations @TorontoPolice @blogTO #BikeTO @TheBikingLawyer pic.twitter.com/D1safAGyT8
— Alex Duarte (@AlexchaeAlex) July 19, 2023
With no evidence they are blaming road rage. Truth – Another casualty in Toronto’s war against the car.
Ontario is the second-worst province when it comes to the “rental wage” – the amount of money you’d have to make per hour based on a 40-hour workweek to afford rent on average. That’s according to a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released earlier this week. While no province in the country is affordable — that’s right: not one of them — Ontario is particularly bad. The only worse province is British Columbia.
The report’s definition of “affordable” rent is based on the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s guideline that one should spend no more than 30 per cent of one’s income on housing. The authors of the report, David Macdonald and Ricardo Tranjan, contrast each province’s mandated minimum wage with the rental wage to paint a grim picture of our present and growing housing dystopia.
Yet another leftist article on the housing crisis that neglects mention of mass immigration, the authors do favour a sort of nationalized housing stock initiative.
The crisis is real, but the problem must be dealt with honestly.
Thousands of sharks off Florida’s coast may have ingested bales of cocaine left in the water by drug smugglers attempting to get their product into the U.S.
Marine biologist Tom Hird wanted to examine whether the sharks have come into contact with the drug, which is the subject of a documentary that will premiere on Discovery Channel’s Shark Week called “Cocaine Sharks.”
h/t Mauser
When the Canadian prime minister shows up at a NATO conference with empty pockets, then criticizes his allies for giving cluster munitions to Ukraine as the wrong kind of help, it’s tempting to tune him out. But just as an alcoholic might be right that you drink too much, you should sometimes read a message even while grimacing at the messenger.
Back when people made some effort to base policy on principle, they gave much thought to waging just war. And it was broadly divided into two heads in Latin because it was so long ago. (In those supposedly dirty, ignorant, vicious Middle Ages, actually.) On the one hand is ius ad bellum, justice in going to war at all. And on the other ius in bello, justice in conducting the war.
Eco-zealots were seemingly rounded on and ‘kettled’ by a group of ‘counter-protesters’ today who call themselves ‘Just Stop P***ing Everyone Off’.
The group – pranksters wearing bright orange t-shirts which bear a striking resemblance to those worn by Just Stop Oil – then formed a human chain around them in a bid to foil one of their demonstrations.
However, the counter-protesters then ‘dispersed’ after climate activists ‘explained their reasoning for demanding an end to new oil and gas’, JSO explained on their social media.
Tony Bennett, a singer whose melodic clarity, jazz-influenced phrasing, audience-embracing persona and warm, deceptively simple interpretations of musical standards helped spread the American songbook around the world and won him generations of fans, died on Friday in New York City. He was 96.
His publicist, Sylvia Weiner, announced his death.
Justin Trudeau has some advice for Justin Trudeau.
Mr. Trudeau, in 2023, leads a federal government that has overseen a surge in the country’s reliance on low-wage temporary foreign workers. The federal Liberals stoked this increase: they loosened the rules early last year. According to the latest data, reported by The Globe last week, Ottawa has approved the hiring of almost 80,000 low-wage foreign workers in the year after the rules were eased. That’s triple the level of the 12 months before the change.
The Mr. Trudeau of 2014 would not be happy. Amid debate at the time over rising reliance on foreign workers, Mr. Trudeau’s position on the opposition benches was clear. “The Temporary Foreign Worker Program is broken,” he declared. He argued that it “drives down wages” and called for the program to be “scaled back dramatically.”
A memo leaked from the Pentagon outlines special rules for transgender soldiers that allow them to skip military deployments.
The February 2023 memo was issued by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and outlines treatment at the Womack Army Medical Center (WAMC) at Fort Liberty.
When David Cohen talks about Canada’s defence spending, it brings to mind Edmund Burke’s comments about prudence in diplomacy; that diplomats employ “an economy of truth … a sort of temperance by which a man can speak truth with measure that he may speak it longer.”
Washington’s man in Ottawa speaks the truth but clearly considers it counterproductive to tell the whole truth.
A female IT boss on £90,000 a year sued for sex discrimination after complaining her male colleagues had Nerf gun wars in the office.
Sarah Longman described a “laddish” workplace culture where members of staff in the department she managed used the children’s toy blasters to fire foam pellets at each other.
Ms Longman, head of information systems, also complained that they threw rubber chickens at each other as part of a wider “sexist” environment where her team regularly took part in “childlike” and “immature” pranks.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland crowed on Wednesday about Canada’s inflation rate dropping to 2.8% in June.
“Canada’s plan to bring down inflation is working,” she wrote on Twitter alongside a graphic showing the country’s inflation rate leading the G7 and being its lowest since March 2021.
They never take credit for causing the inflation to begin with.
As street violence in North America rises, so does the risk of public figures facing baseless accusations of racism. The latest case: country singer Jason Aldean says he’s been unfairly accused of writing a “pro-lynching” song in “Try That In A Small Town.”
🚨🚨🚨 @Jason_Aldean here’s the infamous video everyone is talking about – Try that in a small town… It’s a truly an awesome song!!! Show your support and retweet🔁pic.twitter.com/jnIjjgpZUM
— 🌟🇺🇸Nancy Hamm🇺🇸🌟 (@nancy_hamm1) July 20, 2023
Senator Grassley released a document Thursday revealing that a reliable FBI source had informed the bureau of the bribery scheme.
According to an unidentified informant businessman, the founder of Burisma recounted being pressured by then Vice-President Joe Biden to put Biden’s son Hunter on the Ukrainian energy company’s board, and for $10 million dollars in bribes – $5 million each to Joe and Hunter Biden – in order to use Biden’s political influence to force the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Burisma.
As yet another racial etiquette study shows, it’s getting harder to talk about race.
As I read in the Guardian, an operation called “Reframing Race” has accepted as its mission the task of teaching people, white people in particular, the semantic niceties of racial etiquette.
Some of the stuff we have heard before, such as the need to avoid words that associate whiteness with purity or cleanliness and blackness with evil and destruction. But the reframing regime goes deeper. One particular paragraph in the Guardian caught my attention:
Other recommendations include avoiding the phrase “white working class” and rather using “multi-ethnic working class” or “working-class people of all ethnicities” because the use of the former wrongly excludes black and minoritised people from the class group.
Gavin Newsom’s plans for offshore wind energy are more fantasy than strategy.
Earlier this year, after the federal government leased 583 square miles of deep-ocean waters off the coast of California for offshore wind farms, California governor Gavin Newsom said that “offshore wind energy has gone from a distant pipedream to a burgeoning reality.” Maybe—but it’s hard to imagine an energy project that is costlier, riskier, or less practical.
When completed, the project is set to deliver 4.5 gigawatts of electricity to the California grid. But because even the steadiest offshore winds blow only intermittently, the average production of the turbines will be around 1.8 gigawatts—just 5 percent of California’s current electricity consumption. If California goes all-electric, as state regulators insist it must, these wind farms will represent, at best, 2 percent of the electricity the state will require. “California is pinning a lot of hopes on an industry that scarcely exists today,” notes an MIT Technology Review article.
